Flagship engagement
CI/CD Pipeline Audit
A structured review of your continuous integration and delivery chains—build stages, gates, secrets, environments, and the human steps still holding the train together.
Who this is for
Teams that ship weekly or daily and keep hitting the same friction: flaky jobs, unclear promotion rules, secrets copied by hand, or a “green build” that still needs someone to babysit the cutover. If your CI/CD setup grew by accretion rather than design, this audit is the place to start.
What you receive
- A diagram of the real path from merge to production (including the steps that live only in chat threads)
- A prioritized finding list: blockers, medium risks, and tidy-ups
- Concrete recommendations tied to your runners, registries, and environments—not a generic maturity score
- A 90-minute readout with the people who will implement the fixes
What is included
- Kickoff with up to four stakeholders (engineering lead, pipeline owner, security or compliance contact if relevant)
- Read-only access review of pipeline definitions, recent failed runs, and promotion history
- Spot checks on secret injection, artifact signing or provenance (where present), and environment parity
- Written report in English, plus a one-page executive summary for non-engineers
What is excluded
- Hands-on rewriting of every job (that can follow as a separate enablement sprint)
- 24/7 on-call coverage
- Tool license procurement or vendor negotiations
How the work runs
- Intake — You send repo/pipeline links, a recent incident note if any, and access constraints.
- Walkthrough — We pair with your pipeline owner to run a representative build and deploy path.
- Deep pass — We inspect failure history, flaky stages, and gate definitions.
- Report & readout — Findings ranked by blast radius; agreed next actions owned by your team.
Preparation on your side
Nominate one technical counterpart who can grant temporary read access and answer questions within a business day. Freeze major pipeline renames during the audit window if you can—moving targets muddy the report.
Constraints
We audit what you run today. Greenfield redesigns are possible as a follow-on, not as a silent rewrite inside the audit fee.
Next step
Request a pipeline audit and name the stack (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Azure DevOps, or other) in your message. We reply with a scoped quote within two business days.